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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Vatican City, 29 December 2015 (VIS) –
In the morning of Thursday 31 December the Holy Father will receive
in audience the participants in the 40 th International Congress of
the International Federation of Pueri Cantores, held in Rome from 28
December to 1 January.

“Cantate Spem vestram” is the motto
of the congress, which opened yesterday afternoon with a procession
along Via della Conciliazione to the Holy Door, which the
participants then passed through, and the inauguration ceremony in
the Paul VI Hall, led by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the
Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation.

During these five days “concerts of
hope” will be held in various churches around the capital: at 8.30
p.m. on Tuesday 29 December in the Basilica of Sant'Andrea della
Valle, the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles and the Basilica of St.
Cecilia in Trastevere; on Wednesday 30 September in the Church of
Santa Maria in Traspontina and in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of
Christ the King. The same Wednesday from 9 to 11 a.m. there will be
prayers for peace. Finally, the congress will conclude on Friday with
a Mass celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica.

- erected the new diocese of Barisal
(area 20,708, population 15,183,927, Catholics 29,685, priests 19,
religious 33), Bangladesh, with territory from the diocese of
Chittagong, making it a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Dhaka,
Bangladesh.

- appointed Bishop Subroto Lawrence
Howlader, C.S.C., auxiliary of Chittagong, as first bishop of the
diocese of Barisal, Bangladesh.